Development through Sport: Building Social Capital in Disadvantaged Communities

[Anonymous]

For those of you who are interested in the treatment of disadvantaged communities and social capital, I suggest to read this interesting paper. It addresses only the issue of development through sport for disadvantaged communities. It reviews models where sport was employed to develop better community and citizen life outcomes and to deal with social issues previously addressed through “welfare state” processes.

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1441352308701128

[Jack]

I do appreciate this suggestion also because I think that sport influences directly the community life. It is also a metter of importance in the SDGs. To quote the UN:

“Sport has proven to be a cost-effective and flexible tool in promoting peace and development objectives. Since the inception of the MDGs in 2000, sport has played a vital role in enhancing each of the eight goals, a fact which has been recognized in numerous Resolutions of the General Assembly. In the Declaration of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development sport’s role for social progress is further acknowledged:

“Sport is also an important enabler of sustainable development. We recognize the growing contribution of sport to the realization of development and peace in its promotion of tolerance and respect and the contributions it makes to the empowerment of women and of young people, individuals and communities as well as to health, education and social inclusion objectives.” 

(https://www.un.org/sport/content/why-sport/sport-and-sustainable-development-goals)

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